Problem with DVD ROM Drive

echoon · 5th Feb 2008, 03:32 PM

my hard disk and a cd r/w drive is connected to primary IDE channel. now, i added a dvd rom drive and connected it to secondary IDE channel. the dvd rom is set to secondary master. my win xp easily detected the dvd drive and automatically install it. everything looks perfectly fine, the lights on the dvd is flashing but it always giving me a message "no disc inserted" or "pls. insert a disc". can you help me on this? thanks.

jasperchc · 5th Feb 2008, 10:09 PM

you mean when you insert a disc and the lights on the dvd drive keeps on flashing when it tries to read it? if that is the case then it might be due to incompatible disc or the disc is scratched and the drive cant read it properly.

Zenphic · 6th Feb 2008, 08:16 AM

What's the model of your DVD-Rom and what CD/DVD media are giving you this error?

werty316 · 6th Feb 2008, 11:37 AM

Does the DVD-ROM work when its the only drive connected on the ribbon cable?

Adrian Wong · 6th Feb 2008, 02:42 PM

Could be a problem with the cable. Try changing the cable.

belikethat · 7th Feb 2008, 12:24 AM

i had this problem long time ago with my cd-rom 48x
not sure wat the problem was ..

Trinity · 7th Feb 2008, 01:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jasperchc

you mean when you insert a disc and the lights on the dvd drive keeps on flashing when it tries to read it? if that is the case then it might be due to incompatible disc or the disc is scratched and the drive cant read it properly.

"incompatible disc" this is the problem i

trin has 3 diff pc's to overcome this. +rs -r's ... weird dvd's...

why can't someone make a drive that plays them all???

WHY?????

Zenphic · 7th Feb 2008, 05:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Trinity

"incompatible disc" this is the problem i

trin has 3 diff pc's to overcome this. +rs -r's ... weird dvd's...

why can't someone make a drive that plays them all???

WHY?????

Newer CD/DVD readers are much better nowadays. And once you find a media that works with your drive, you stick with it! or you just take good media like Verbatim

Chai · 7th Feb 2008, 09:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zenphic

Newer CD/DVD readers are much better nowadays. And once you find a media that works with your drive, you stick with it! or you just take good media like Verbatim

I have 2 Liteon drives that doesn't burn MMC medias (Verbatim) for some weird reasons!!!

64bit · 8th Feb 2008, 09:44 AM

Some of those problems might be corrected with the flashing of the drive's firmware.

5th Feb 2008, 03:32 PM	#1 (permalink)
echoon Newbie Join Date: 5 Feb 2008 Posts: 2 Reputation: 0 Rep Power: 0	Problem with DVD ROM Drive my hard disk and a cd r/w drive is connected to primary IDE channel. now, i added a dvd rom drive and connected it to secondary IDE channel. the dvd rom is set to secondary master. my win xp easily detected the dvd drive and automatically install it. everything looks perfectly fine, the lights on the dvd is flashing but it always giving me a message "no disc inserted" or "pls. insert a disc". can you help me on this? thanks.

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Zenphic Active Join Date: 23 Apr 2006 Location: Quebec, Canada Posts: 905 Reputation: 331 Rep Power: 6	What's the model of your DVD-Rom and what CD/DVD media are giving you this error?

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64bit Just Started Join Date: 29 Jun 2006 Posts: 30 Reputation: 0 Rep Power: 0	Some of those problems might be corrected with the flashing of the drive's firmware.